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Tagged: Verdi

StudioTulsa
5:05 pm
Mon April 22, 2013

Tulsa Opera Presents Verdi's "Aida"

Aired on Monday, April 22nd.
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By Rich Fisher

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we welcome back Kostis Protopapas, who's been the Artistic Director of Tulsa Opera since May of 2008. He previously served as the company's Associate Conductor and Chorusmaster, and he joins us today to talk about Tulsa Opera's latest production --- the final show if its current season, for which Protopapas himself is the conductor --- "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi. This production opened on Saturday the 20th at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center's Chapman Music Hall; it will continue with two more curtains, on Friday the 26th and Sunday the 28th.

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1:00 am
Mon March 19, 2012

Baritone Thomas Hampson stars as Macbeth at the Met

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A scene from Verdi's "MacBeth" with Nadja Michael as Lady MacBeth
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Nadja Michael as Lady MacBeth and Thomas Hampson as the title character in Verdi's "MacBeth"
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By Metropolitan Opera

Listen to a short interview with Thomas Hampson about the role of Macbeth.

The 2011-12 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Verdi’s Macbeth, starring Thomas Hampson in the title role. Gianandrea Noseda conducts his first Met performances of Verdi’s opera, adapted from the Shakespeare tragedy, which also stars German soprano Nadja Michael in her Met debut run as Lady Macbeth. Dimitri Pittas reprises his Macduff, seen in the 2007 premiere of Adrian Noble’s production, and Günther Groissböck sings the role of Banquo.  

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